Alex Wood
AI Software Engineer at Siemens
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Wood is an AI Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native and serverless developer tools, currently focused on AI DevOps and LLM orchestration at AWS and now at Siemens. He led technical efforts on the AWS Serverless Application Model and SAM CLI—adding language runtimes (notably Ruby), templates, and integration tests—and launched new services from zero to GA with a strong emphasis on security and operational readiness. Alex combines deep back-end and DevOps expertise with hands-on SDK work (AWS SDK for Ruby, S3 improvements) and a track record of shipping developer-facing features that improve productivity. He also leads cross-team integrations to surface customer AWS resources into AI-first experiences, bridging platform, tooling, and agentic workflows. Based in Seattle, he contributes actively to open source and is known for pragmatic engineering that balances fast prototyping with production-grade robustness.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Tulane UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (38)
api-rest10
docker10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
dockers10
aws-sdk10
ruby10
aws-sam10
aws10
amazon-s310
aws-s310
rest-api10
serverless10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sam-cli-app-templates
Sep 2019 - Jan 2021
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 34 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions primarily involve developing and testing templates for the AWS SAM CLI. They have worked on initializing templates in Ruby, Python, and Java, incorporating testing frameworks for each language to ensure functionality. The user also implemented a JSON validation check for template manifests, enhancing the quality of the generated templates. Furthermore, the user updated Ruby examples and added an EFS example app for Python 3.8.
aws/aws-sdk-ruby
Jun 2013 - Mar 2019
The official AWS SDK for Ruby
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 releases, 890 commits, 195 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the AWS SDK for Ruby, focusing on the S3 service. Their work involved implementing a plugin to populate the location constraint parameter for creating S3 buckets, improving the handling of HTTP requests. They also made changes to how configuration and contexts are used, ensuring best practice and implementing exception handling. Further work on the shared credentials plugin points towards involvement in integrating services for the AWS service.
aws-sdkrubycloudaws
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